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Curious
about Office 2008 for Macintosh? To see
the Office 2008 upgrade schedule for faculty and staff Macs, click
here.
Office
2007 workshops for students, staff, and faculty provide hands-on experience using
the new Office 2007 "ribbon" toolbar to create and edit Word 2007, Excel
2007, and PowerPoint 2007 documents. Click
here for full workshop description, available dates and times, and
registration information.
New
ITS blogs for Macintosh and Windows users: Visit the MacUser or WinBlog blog
to read news and alerts about each operating system, add your own comments and questions, and
sign up to receive updates automatically by email or RSS feed. We look forward to
hearing from you!
If
you work with any Smith website,
you must now use secure FTP to transfer files between your computer
and a Smith web server. Whether you use Dreamweaver, Contribute, or a non-secure FTP program, click
here for instructions on switching to Secure FTP.
Office
2007 Users: If you plan to send a Word,
Excel, or PowerPoint file to someone who does not have Office
2007, click here for
instructions on saving the file in a format your recipient can open.
Non-Office
2007 Users: If you are unable to open a Word,
Excel, or PowerPoint file sent by an Office 2007 user, click
here for instructions on converting the file to a format your computer can read.
Copyright
Infringement Claims: For information about the new legal strategy
adopted by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
for pursuing copyright infringers, click
here. For information about settling lawsuits, click here. To disable illegal peer-to-peer
file-sharing software on your computer, click here.
Staff & Faculty:
Since Internet Explorer 7 for Windows is incompatible with
some Smith applications, please install a program that blocks
the Windows updater from installing it on your computer. Log
in to the Smith
software page and click on the Blocker link at the top of the page.
Click on Run, then Run again.
Microsoft has
recently released Office Professional 2007 for Windows, including new versions of Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, and Access. Unfortunately, Office 2007 is not backwards-compatible with the versions
of Office currently used on campus. Click
here for recommended solutions to version-compatibility problems.
RefWorks, online software that
helps you collect, organize, and format references for research and writing, is now
available free to all Smith students, faculty, and staff. For more information, click
here.
Quarantine Alert: Many
people are adding the wrong kinds of entries to their 'Blocked Senders' list in MessageScreen,
inadvertently blocking messages they really want to receive while slowing down the system
with unneeded entries. To learn how to avoid this problem, click
here.
Because
of on-going virus activity, all email
messages with a ZIP or encrypted file attached are being
held for user deletion or approval. Users receive the original message
minus the attachment, with an alert and a link to the "parked" file.
Click on the link to enter the parking area, then view, save, or delete
the file. Unless the attached file is expected and from a legitimate
sender, please DELETE it. Note that viewing the file is
NOT safe because it is the same as opening it.
The Center
for Media Production (CMP) is an Educational Technology Services facility dedicated
to the teaching and learning of video production. Located in the lower level of the Alumnae Gym,
the CMP provides state-of-the-art video labs, studios, equipment, and software to the Smith community.
For more information, click here.
To check your MessageScreen
quarantine and release any incoming email messages that don't belong
there, go to: https://mscreen3.smith.edu/user.
For instructions, click
here.
If annoying
spam gets past MessageScreen and into your GroupWise mailbox, please
forward it to spam@smith.edu using
the 'forward as attachment'
option. Thanks for helping us
improve MessageScreen's filtering rules!
The following
ITS facilities are open Monday through Friday as listed:
User
Support Center: Stoddard 23, x4487, 7:45
AM - 5:00 PM
Computer Store: Stoddard 22, x3027, 8:30 AM - 4:00
PM
Student
Telephone Services: Stoddard 22, x2082, 9:30 AM -
3:30 PM
OneCard Office: Stoddard 22, x3082, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Do you need
to reserve equipment for an electronic classroom presentation? Click on
the new Classroom
Support link
below.